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If the washing machine is using an induction moter, the capacitor is for creating the conditions for it to self-start on a single phase system. Three-phase induction motors don't need this.
Re:ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:19PM (#49540248)
We can't use ChatGPT Ads because ChatGPT banned our company for ads for political content even though we are a CRM/Compliance tool for campaigns and the only ad we had was the autogenerated ChatGPT one they made. No chance at an appeal either. We had this issue with Bing Ads but microsoft fixed it and even personally called to apologize about the mixup.
Re:How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs on Monday August 24, 2026 @11:37AM (#49421307)
US Sales tax is the exact same way. Each state has a different rate, Texas has multiple rates inside a zip code you have to manage. Each state also has a nexus requirement that is either money, or number of transactions based. Then the filings you have to do and have a Foreign LLC registration, a registered agent in that state, and a yearly annual report to file to tell them you are still in business and here is my $40-200.
Didn't AT&T do that and Cloudflare made them change it when they aquired that space?
Re:TLS certificates for internal services done right on Thursday July 09, 2026 @03:56PM (#48851576)
Thats what this Github Action uses is DNS validation through acme.sh and updating a Route53 domain.
Re:TLS certificates for internal services done right on Thursday July 09, 2026 @01:28PM (#48849485)
A Github Action running acme.sh that pushes certs to S3 solves the split dns issue for hosts, which can cause all sorts of weirdness after a while. You can then grab a cert on a schedule and even make them wildcard if you want. Then you will get NXDOMAIN if you are not on the VPN so ideally no public traffic.
Re:Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS on Thursday June 18, 2026 @12:39PM (#48588007)
Unifi docs say that the AI feature run directly on the camera or via optional devices like the AI Port or AI Key. Odd that it impacts your UDM Pro and wifi.
I really don't now how these other code bases are structured. Our team ran cc-usage and our cost is right about what we pay as our monthly license. This is only those on the team pro side.

Our code base is not small, millions of lines of code. It does not take $65 in tokens to solve an issue. I'm running 3-4 claude code terminals at the same time and i'm still pretty close to what it would cost per a token for usage. I don't know what we are doing right with our code or claude.md to make this happen and I don't want to change it to break it.

Re:Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session on Friday April 17, 2026 @12:35PM (#47807775)
I'm seeing the opposite. With Opus 4.7 and xhigh, I'm seeing less session usage , it's moving faster, and my weekly usage is not moving that much on a Team Pro account.
Re:Oxide raises $200M Series C on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:30AM (#46961045)
From the podcasts they talk a little about their clients. It's people who want something like AWS Outpost but fully disconnected and independent from any cloud and running 100% local.
Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:12AM (#45966267)
I'm pretty sure BGP magic will let you blackhole a whole subnet.
Re:Ubiquiti SFP Wizard on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @11:58AM (#45734566)
I've had great luck with 10gtek modules both with Mikrotik gear, with DACs, and one that is connected to an upstream juniper switch. I'm curious what modules were the most troublesom.

* I will note that the 10gb sfp+ modules from 10gtek on a Mikrotik just don't work.

Re:Harnessing America's Heat Pump Moment on Saturday October 25, 2025 @01:50PM (#45705712)
Newer units (not all) in the US come pre-charged up to a certain size of lineset. Manufacturers can sell you a whole unit with a charge. The rest is easy to source locally though I haven't tried to get nitrogen myself.

Of course you have exactly one chance with your install this way until you have to call someone.

Enterprise drives are way different than anything consumer based. I wouldn't trust a consumer drive used for 2 years, but a true enteprise drive has like millions of hours left of it's life.

Quote from Toshiba's paper on this. [1]

Hard disk drives for enterprise server and storage usage (Enterprise Performance and Enterprise Capacity Drives) have MTTF of up to 2 million hours, at 5 years warranty, 24/7 operation. Operational temperature range is limited, as the temperature in datacenters is carefully controlled. These drives are rated for a workload of 550TB/year, which translates into a continuous data transfer rate of 17.5 Mbyte/s[3]. In contrast, desktop HDDs are designed for lower workloads and are not rated or qualified for 24/7 continuous operation.

From Synology

With support for 550 TB/year workloads1 and rated for a 2.5 million hours mean time to failure (MTTF), HAS5300 SAS drives are built to deliver consistent and class-leading performance in the most intense environments. Persistent write cache technology further helps ensure data integrity for your mission-critical applications.

[1] https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/content/dam/toshiba-ss-v...

[2] https://www.synology.com/en-us/company/news/article/HAS5300/...

Every drive is "used" the moment you turn it on.
Re:What .NET 10 GC Changes Mean for Developers on Sunday October 05, 2025 @10:26AM (#45481734)
MAUI Blazor Hybrid is great if you won't want to learn XAML. Apple killed Silverlight, Microsoft kept it running for ~20 years. If you stayed close to what Xamarin was the migration to MAUI isn't bad from what I've seen.
Re:Qwen3-Next on Friday September 12, 2025 @04:57PM (#45226687)
Can you talk more about how you are using ollama for spam filtering?
Re:Claude Sonnet Will Ship in Xcode on Friday August 29, 2025 @10:36AM (#45064710)
Visual Studio is a bad example. It's used for Windows, Web, and Mobile. The big difference between the two is the cost. Visual Studio Pro is $100/month, Enterprise is $300/month, while VSCode is free. It was an incredibly smart marketing play by Microsoft to do that.
At a call center, that had a whole datacenter in the basement. They had two weeks of fuel on hand at all times. Being on a border of a state, they also had a 2nd grid connection in case one failed.

The whole area lost power for weeks but gym was open 24/7 which became very busy during that time.

Re:QUIC for the Kernel on Thursday July 31, 2025 @02:25PM (#44748566)
You still have latency, legacy window sizes, and packet schedulers to deal with.
We have had great success with Maui Blazor Hybrid. Each release hot reload gets better with fewer edge cases. I also found that having a separate .cs file instead of in one file helps with highlighing and intellisense.
Still Public, still chews through million->billion or rows in seconds. Their Cloud version has some Cloud specific features. A few vendors have build custom thing on top or custom builds off the open source project too.
For their marketing it is. There is a very specific reason the desktop exists. On-premise AI workloads. You can't get the bus width on socketed ram that you do soldered ram at the current moment. 1 product is an exception, 2 would be a break from their replaceable component marketing.
Re:Helion: A modern fast paced Doom FPS engine in C# on Thursday June 12, 2025 @01:00PM (#44260007)
It looks like these types were code-gen from something else.

https://github.com/Helion-Engine/Helion/commit/e6affd9abff14...

Re:Cars and Key Fobs: Attacks on Car Remotes on Thursday April 24, 2025 @09:12AM (#43782311)
This happened to me! Friend had a similar car and at night they went to mine and the door unlocked but the car wouldn't start. The door only had a few pins it checked while the ignition used every pin. We compared our keys and sure enough one part of it was the same.
Re:HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:18AM (#43389484)
The interviews with the Typescript dev doing the rewrite will tell you why. Switching their compiler to Go was a quick transition since Go matched their current JS build. The dev also wanted to use go, and use functional programming. It would have required more work to switch from functional to OOP style that C# has. Dev also didn't want to learn F#. Nothing about C#, just a personal decision with the least amount of work to get to a beta.
Re:A 10x Faster TypeScript on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @12:01PM (#43333793)
The C# compiler is written in C# and distributed to multiple platforms. Along with the JIT that runs on all kinds of devices.

Graph for the differences in Runtime, Runtime Trimmed, and AOT .NET.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/n...

First it looks amazing. Honest question, why do all of these keyboards never have an extra column on the right. Standard querty layout has a lot of coding related extra keys to the right than the left. Similar with the ergodox ez and moonlander. Hard to break a years long habit of going up for a curly brace or bracket then down.
Neither is their bandwidth, and servers.
Works for

LetsEncrypt AWS Azure GCP Github Actions

Failing to see how they don't mix well.

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